A lot of people buy domains with dashes and some people swear they won’t touch a domain with dashes in it.  Are domains with dashes any good?  Do they hurt SEO?

The search engines do rank sites with dashes, but you might end up in the google sandbox for a bit because a lot of spammers, scammers, and just all about shady characters use domains with dashes because the regular one isn’t available or they can make it look like they are the normal domain to steal their traffic.

The keywords are viewed by the search engines and you can definitely be ranked for your keywords using domains with dashes and they are definitely a good alternative if you can’t find a decent domain extension with your keywords or decent domain alternative.

Personally I rarely buy domains with dashes because I like people to remember my site.  People forget to add dashes and end up on other sites.  I want them to get to my site the easiest way possible.  Dashes make a domain name harder to remember and you have to be careful when using them.

I have bought dashed domains and used them to quickly get ranked for my chosen keywords but I don’t like them and try to avoid them as much as possible.